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I. E. PALMER.

HAMMOGK.

No. 412,892. Patented Oct. 15, 1889.

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HAMMOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 412,892, dated October 15, 1889.

Application filed November 6, 1888. Serial No. 290,137. (No model.)

To a whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ISAAC E. PALMER, of Middletown, in the county of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hammocks, of which the following is a specification.

I will describe in detail a hammock embodying my improvement, and then point out the novel features in claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of part of a hammock embodying my improvement, looking from the under side. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same 011 an enlarged scale, taken on the line a; 50, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan view of part of a hammock, showinga slight modification. Fig. 4 is a similar view showing another modification. Fig. 5 is an elevation on an enlarged scale and partly broken away of a modified form of a stretcher. Fig. 6 is a similar view of the same, looking from the other side. Fig. 7 is a view of a portion of the joint of the stretcher, detached. Fig. 8 is a transverse section of a pillow and stretcher which may be used. Fig. 9 is a detail view of a pillow which may be used.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A designates the body of the hammock, which may be of woven or other suitable material.

B designates the suspending-cords of the hammock, secured in this example of my improvement to warp-threads a.

C designates suspending devices to which the suspending-cords are attached and by which the hammock may be hung up.

D designates pockets. These pockets are ure than the body of the hammock.

In the example of my improvement shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 the pockets are secured to the hammock near one of the ends thereof, and their greatest extension is in the direction of the width of the hammock. They are secured to the hammock, as shown, by means of stitching along their side edges and along the ends thereof which are adjacent to the side edges of the body of the hammock. Their inner ends are open. In Figs. 1, 2, and 3 the pockets are shown as separated from each other by a space, but in Fig. 4 they are shown as abut-ting at their inner ends. In fact, they are illustrated as formed by a single piece of material, an opening it being formed in the material, so as to separate the pockets, and also so as to admit of the introduction of a stretcherD'. In both examples of my improvement the open ends or months of the pockets are toward each other.

Referring again to Figs. 1 and 2, the stretcher D is formed of a single piece of metal, which is preferably round and bent near its ends to form enlarged portions or loops 1). (Shown more clearly in dotted outline in Fig. 1.) These enlarged or loop portions of the stretcher tend to prevent the latter from breaking through the closed ends of the pockets. The end portions of the stretcher are received within the pockets, and the stretcher is intended to be of such length only that by moving it into one of the pockets to its farthest extent and stretching the hammock the other end portion of the stretcher may be readily slipped into or removed from the other pocket.

A stretcher similar tothat described may be used with the construction shown in Fig. 4, and I have shown in dotted lines an opening it, near one side between the pockets, through which the stretcher may be introduced. In this case the opening h (shown on said figure) may be omitted.

E designates re-enforcing pieces. These re-enforcing pieces are preferably made of a strong textile material, and as here shown are in the form of strips and overlap the ends of the pockets near the side edges of the body of the hammock. They are secured about their edges to the hammock by sewing or otherwise, both upon the upper and lower sides of the hammock. It is advantageous to re-enforce the end portions of the pockets, for the reason that the latter are thus rendered more capable of resisting any bursting strain or wear which may be brought upon them. by the stretcher.

In Fig. 1 I have shown more clearly a second or supplemental stretcher G, which stretcher is arranged inward ofthe stretcher D. The stretcher G is shorter than the stretcher D, and its end portions are received strengthened against sagging where such strength is most required.

In Figs. 1 and 2 I have shown a pillow H arranged adjacent to the stretchers D G, but upon the opposite side of the hammock, and within a pocket 9 on the hammock. This pillow is shown more clearly in Fig. 9. In fact, apillow may be used alone or combined with an independent stretcher and be received in the pockets D. In this case the pocket 9 might be omitted. I have illustrated such an arrangement of a pillow and stretcher in Figs. 3 and S. In this example of my improvement the stretcher may be made of wood, and the pillow may be secured to the stretcher by tacking or in any other suitable manner. As the pillow when used alone would operate to stretch the hammock laterally, it would in eifect constitute a stretcher.

' In Fig. 5 is shown an adjustable stretcher constructed in such manner in this example as to be jointed at about midway in its length. The joint is formed by loops Z upon the inner ends of portions Z of the stretcher, through which loops extend shanks Z on securing-pieces Z The shanks Z are hollow and abut against each other at their inner ends when they have been passed through the loops from opposite sides of the latter, as shown more clearly in Fig. 6. Upon the securing-pieces Z are heads Z, outside the loops Z. Through the hollow shanks Z and consequently through the loops Z, extends a rivet Z which rivet passes through suitable apertures in the heads Z \Vhen the rivet is upset at its ends, the securing-pieces will be secured together. Upon each of the heads Z of the securing-pieces are oppositely-extending ears or lugs Z, so arranged that they will contact with each other upon adjacent sides when the securing-pieces have been secured together. The portions Z, by means of the loops Z, may turn freely about upon the shanks Z in one direction to fold them together; but when opened out into line they will contact with the lugs Z to prevent the working of the joint so as to fold the stretcher in the other direction. This form of stretcher is particularly adapted for use with the form of pockets shown in Fig. 4:, as it may be folded together in order to be inserted or removed through the opening it between the pockets.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a hammock, the combination, with a body portion, of two pockets made independent of the hammock and secured upon the face of the body portion of the hammock near one end of the latter and also near opposite side edges thereof, said pockets having their mouths or open ends toward each other and being adapted to receive a stretcher, substantially as specified.

2. In a hammock, the combination, with a body portion,of two pockets made independent of the hammock and secured upon the face of the body portion of the hammock near one end of the latter and also near opposite side edges thereof, said pockets having their mouths or open ends toward each other, and re-enforcing pieces for the pockets at their closed ends, said pockets being adapted to receive a stretcher, substantially as specified.

3. In a hammock, the combination, with a body portion, of two pockets made independent of the hammock and secured upon the face of the body portion of the hammock near one end of the latter and also near opposite side edges thereof, said pockets having their mouths or open ends toward each other, and re-enforcing pieces for the pockets at their closed ends, said re-enforcing pieces overlapping the side edges of the hammock and the adjacent ends of the pockets, and said pockets being adapted to receive a stretcher, substantially as specified.

4. In a hammock, the combination, with a body portion, of foul-pockets made independent of the hammock and secured upon the face of the body portion of the hammock near one end of the latter, two of said pockets being secured to the hammock near opposite side edges thereof and two being secured to the hammock farther inward from the side edgesof the hammock than the others and farther from the adjacent end, the pockets of each pair having their mouths or open ends toward each other, said pockets being adapted to receive stretchers, substantially as specified.

5. In a hammock, the combination, with a body portion, of two pockets secured thereto near one end thereof and having their mouths or open ends toward each other, and a stretcher made in two sections secured together and adapted to be arranged in said pockets, substantially as specified.

" ISAAC E. PALMER.

Witnesses:

JOHN G. PALMER, JOHN C. LADD. 

